FCC staff “continually monitored” a retransmission consent blackout on DirecTV...
FCC staff “continually monitored” a retransmission consent blackout on DirecTV of Sunbeam TV stations in the Boston and Miami areas, Chairman Julius Genachowski wrote members of Congress. Staff “reached out to the parties for status updates,” he said of the…
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now-resolved dispute. On retrans generally, “Commission staff is reviewing the record developed in response to the Commission’s Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to determine if proposed changes to its retransmission consent rules are warranted,” Genachowski wrote. “The Commission also remains available as a resource if Congress chooses to revisit the statutory framework for retransmission consent.” The agency Tuesday in docket 12-2 (http://xrl.us/bmwh4j) released Genachowski’s responses dated Feb. 16 to letters on DirecTV-Sunbeam from legislators including Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., and Reps. Charles Bass, R-N.H., and Massachusetts Democrats including Ed Markey.